BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Here is something you don't
see in a deep red, Deep South state just 10 days from an election for Congress:
A Democrat outraising a Republican and leading in the race.

It's happening in South Carolina's heavily Republican 1st Congressional
District where former governor and fallen one-time GOP star Mark Sanford is
trying to make a political comeback by winning his old seat in the U.S. House
of Representatives. He is opposed by Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the
sister of Stephen Colbert, the Comedy Central host and satirist.

According to a story in today's The
State newspaper in Columbia, Colbert Bush raised more than twice the amount
of dollars than Sanford in the dash for campaign cash for the latest reporting
period. Also, polls in the race show Colbert Bush with a nine point lead in the
race.

Elizabeth Colbert Busch

The special election is May 7.

In June of 2009, then Gov. Sanford disappeared for six days. It was
explained by his staff that Sanford was hiking the Appalachian Trail. In reality
Sanford was in Buenos Aires, Argentina visiting a woman with whom he had begun
an affair in 2008. Eventually Sanford admitted the affair.

While Sanford finished out his term as governor, his admitted infidelity
ended his ambition to seek the GOP presidential nomination in 2012.